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Studying Ephesians in the SSnet.org series Lesson 1, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.

The Topic today is: “Ephesians’ “heavenly places” as the Sanctuary in Heaven for Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson Ephesians”.

The Opening Hymn will be 229 "Spirit of the Living God."

The Sabbath School Quarterly, downloadable from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on page 14.

The SSnet.org site allows anyone, anywhere to read the lesson in their own language. Choose your own language to see God speaking also to your heart.

Why do you not click on this now?

--- https://www.adultbiblestudyguide.org/pdf.php?file=2023:3Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ323_02.pdf

---Or try in alternative this one:  https://ssnet.org/lessons/23c/less02.html

---The proper reading of “in heavenly places” is called for.

---Ephesians 1:3 is applicable here. Protestants do not understand the text properly. Why? They do not have a Sanctuary Doctrine.

---In heavenly places is properly explained by Paul who also wrote Hebrews chapters 7-10.

---The tabernacle Paul is talking about, is not on earth. It is in heaven. But the earthly one is a good type or explanation for the heavenly one.

---So where did Jesus go when He went to heaven? Sit on a sofa next to His father for 1992 years since He left the earth? No.

---So where did Jesus go?

---Ask Paul who wrote Ephesians 1:3. Bible explains bible. No speculation needed.

---Sanctuary deniers or Sanctuary Doctrine deniers wish to see it only as a dwelling place of God. Period. False.

---Paul is explicit in Hebrews when he explained the three divisions of the Sanctuary in heaven. The sanctuary where the altar was for 31 AD and the Holies or first apartment where Christ went in as priest and the second veil or Most Holy where He did not yet go in when Paul wrote in 64 AD the book of Hebrews. (See Hebrews 9:8).

--- “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places”

---Christ our Mediator, Priest and Advocate is doing a lot for us. Right? So why does the author of our Sabbath School Lesson have so much trouble in seeing this very doctrine of Adventism?

---I cannot answer. But I do know that is what Paul had in mind. Do you agree?

---God’s business is salvation. That is the Trinity’s task and purpose. There in the heavenly temple is their job.

---There is only one location where that business is taking place and that is the Temple. In the Book of Revelation you see many images of Christ in the Temple and coming out of the Temple when He finished His work in Revelation 14 last part.

---All actions of God in the Bible is either from or to the Heavenly Sanctuary. So if you are talking as Adventist about the Book of Ephesians you need to talk this way or otherwise we question if you are a proper Adventist. Right?

---What is so difficult in seeing that?

---Can we please talk Adventism when we write and not Reformed theology that denies the Sanctuary messages? Did you know that Calvin discouraged other Reformers not to make too much of the Sanctuary in the Book of Hebrews? I have the reference for this given by Calvin College in Michigan!

---So is your pastor or teacher talking with a well, if and but in his sentences regarding the Sanctuary Doctrine? Move. When? Immediately.